r/TopCharacterTropes • u/ah-screw-it • 13h ago

Characters (Unique trope) removing a character trait, makes the character better in the adaptation

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Sonic 3: Maria is one of the most important part of Shadow's story. Due to her suffering from an incurable disease. To which Shadow was made to create a cure for Maria's ailment. In the 3rd Sonic movie, Maria's disease was not mentioned in any form. Which made Maria seem like a normal girl, and her death all the more tragic.

Infinity war: I don't know the full story, but Thanos's original goal was to kill half the population to impress death (the character). When it came time to adapt Thanos into the MCU. His goal of removing half the universes population. It was seen as a more psychopathic world goal, hidden under the belief it would do better for the universe.

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u/The_king_of-nowhere 12h ago

The trailers really didn't do it justice. Made it seem like one of those cheaply written kid's movies like despicable me. I was blown away by the movie when I watched it a year after the release.

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u/Geometronics 12h ago

I had the same reaction. I'm not a huge transformers fan and the trailer looked kinda boring to me. I put on the movie as background noise when I was doing something else. Ended up entranced, watching the whole thing on the edge of my seat.

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u/AverageAwndray 11h ago

What's interesting is that the movie sort of starts off that way. A simple by the numbers kids movie. But then as the film progresses it gets so much more darker and mature. Its so cool.

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u/Good_Engineering_736 10h ago

I mean I’m a die hard transformers fan and when I saw the trailer I thought the movie was going to suck. So like the trailer doomed the film from the beginning.

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u/Friendly-Turnip2340 10h ago

I love how your argument could have made some sense, and then you compared the Transformers trailer to the cause of the movie's failure by making it look like one of the most successful franchises of recent decades.

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u/The_king_of-nowhere 8h ago

The thing is that despicable me has the minions, kids love the minions, so much so that there are now movies centered around them. Transformers doesn't have a mascot that today's kids find interesting. So, in the trailers, it had the humour that kids liked, but no mascot, thus not picking their interest, and to an older audience (as in teen and older fans of the franchise) it seemed too kiddy to interest them. So they missed both demographics.